The book aims at practitioners, executive and market professionals from the banking and securities industry as well as academics, who want to update their insights and knowledge about the profound changes in securities trading, clearing and settlement in Europe. Readers will find state-of-the-art discussions about MiFID, T2S and so on.

Like many other markets, stock markets are characterised by asymmetric information. If investors cannot distinguish high-quality from low-quality securities, they will value all securities as average resulting in the well known market for lemons. How can high-quality listed companies communicate with stock markets to distinguish themselves from low-quality listed companies?